Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 11, 1909, EDITORIAL, Page 4, Image 12
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY II, 1900. ' J J. Tim Omaiia Sunday Beb FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER- VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Knterod at Omaha postofflce as second eiea matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Bee (without Sunday), one year..W Dally Km and Sunday, one year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally m (Including Sunday). per week.lSe Dally Bee (without Sunday). per week.lOe Evening Pee (without Sunday). Pf week Jo Evening Bn (with Sunday). per week.lOe Sunday Bee, ona year ej-JJ Saturday Hee, one year Address all romplalnta of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. orncEs. Omaha The Be Building. South Omaha Twentyfourth and N. Council Bluffa IS Scott Street. Lincoln (II Little Building. hloa(ro 1M Marquette Building. few Tork-Rooms U01-11M No. M West Thirty-third Strt. Washington T2S Fourteenth Street. N. w. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. 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Saascrlaers leaving; lae city tem porarily aboale) have) The Be aallea) ta these. Address will ae eaanared aa a(ta as reaeate. Why not keep up the good work by trying for safe and sane automobile races? Possibly that earthquake in central Ada was only the shah of Persia fall ing off his throne. Tbo feeling prevails that the new tariff at best will never be quoted among the six best sellers. An inquirer wanta to know where the liars go to, but up to date there is no evidence they have gone anywhere. The new Lincoln cents are ready for distribution, but the majority of us would sooner see the ten-dollar bills passed around. Inasmuch as the statue of General Francis E. Spinner bears his famous atgnature, future ages will have a time of it figuring out who It Is. The man who has been proclaimed president of Colombia does not want to accept. Possibly he feels sure of keeping the job be now has. Another victory for base ball has been scored, when a ball bat tri umphed over a wagon spok in a duel between landlord and tenant Although a New York man has chal lenged the world to a beefsteak-eating contest, no one has aa yet been found willing to finance the contest. There waa a riot down in Pittsburg, Kaa., because a saloon man refused to sell beer by the bucketful. Thought Kansas was strictly prohibition. A Chicago man is aulng for 11,000,' 000 damagea for false arrest. A good reputation must be a rare thing in Chicago to be worth that much. According to an eminent astron omer the earth la shrinking. He can prove It by any man who owns a farm on the banks of the Missouri river. Things, are not always what they seem, for the principal official of the Indemnity Grain company of Minne apolis has skipped out with all the funds. The Baltimore Sun Insists that red hair is no disgrace. Who said It was? But if the Sun had kept quiet a whole lot of people would never have known he waa red-headed. While ex-Preeldent Roosevelt Is bagging big game In the African Jun gles, ex-Candidate Bryan Is bagging big gate receipts at the Chautauqua ground amphitheaters. Speaking of names, Lincoln news papera are carrying announcements of the candidacy of "A. Handsaker" for a county office. Too bad hla parents forgot to put in the "h." It Is suggested that the pinching of tmuggtera In New York is helping out the Increase In federal revenues. If that la the case they ahould be pitched again, for we need the money. Farm land values in Iowa have been tncr4?d thia year 140,000,000, yet the ralinada think they should have a lower assessment. Nothing modest about railroads around taxation time Under the decision that It Is .breach of the peace to slog or play the piano after midnight and before 7 a. na. the man who resolves that "he won't go home till morning" will at 4B7 rata fceve to keep quiet about it An Eoneit Census. Commenting upon the enactment of congress of the census bills, the Out look exclalma, "Now for an honest census." We heartily Indorse the sen timent and join in it, and unhesi tatingly express the belief that the keynote of the coming census should be honesty, accuracy and expediency. The taking of this decennial census Is a prerequisite for the apportionment of representation in congresa and Is undertaken pursuant to the constitu tional provision, which requires rep resentation and direct taxes to be ap portioned "among the several states according to their respective num bers," and adds: The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years In such manner as they shall by law direct While only two things were ap parently contemplated by the framers of the constitution when they provided for census enumeration, namely, the apportionment of representation in the lower house of congress and the dis tribution of direct taxes such taxes having been Imposed only once or twice in our whole history in fact, many other equally Important read justments depend upon the honesty of the census. All our vital statistics, all our per capita percentages, such as our per capita taxes, our per capita wealth, our per capita Illiteracy, our per capita debt, the ratio of landless to land-owning population, the relative rank of cities, counties and states. In a word, all the figures on which we base our measurements of social, In dustrial, educational and religious progress depend upon the census In Its original meaning of simply counting the people. In all this, Inaccuracy, due to Inefficiency or carelessness, has the game vitiating affect as deliberate dishonesty. . The Outlook calls attention to the tremendous magnitude of the census task by reason of our great increase of population, to count which will now require nearly 400 supervisors and 70,000 enumerators. The difficulty of recruiting an army of that size of men at once, competent, alert and honest, is self-evident and must impress upon the responsible heads in charge the need of special care in the selection and constant vigilance over the work of the counting corps. In spite of the Increased number to be enumerated, the thirteenth census can, and should, be made more accurate and more quickly available than any of our pre vious censuses. t Education and Crime. Several speakers at the convention of the National Educational associa tion discussed anew education aa a preventive of crime, and one even went so far aa to declare that properly directed education would render pris ons unnecessary. If the speaker's statement were true it would be a ter rifle arraignment of prevailing educa tlonal methods, but happily the facts do not bear out this theory. All thoughtful students are aware that certain criminal tendencies can be eradicated by proper mental dlsciplln ing and othera can be restrained. Making over Inborn criminal Instincts by educational methods, however, la a little too much to expect of the teacher. Removing opportunity and Incentive, together with fear of punishment, have been the only efficient restraints so far, and these agencies are Just as necessary to prevent people not natu rally criminals from falling into vicious ways. The experience of criminologists has been that education only enhances the danger from the inherent criminal. Just aa It Increases the powers for good of people of good Instincts. Some of our educators "are troubled with the same complaint which afflicts vendors of quack nostrums In that they hold their product up as the sure and single cure for all the Ills of humanity Education haa no primary creative power and can only develop and mould what nature haa Implanted. By de veloping and strengthening the better Instincts where they are naturally dominant and building up character, education can, and doubtless does, serve as a preventive of crime, but where crime la the dominating charac terlstic other repressive and penal agencies will still be employed for some time, and among them the de plored, yet necessary, prison. A Great Irrigation Enterprise. The government has just completed the Gunnison tunnel in Colorado, which will turn water onto 260 squire miles of rich land until now useless for agriculture. It Is the greatest completed Irrigation enterprise in this coi.ntry, and at a cost of not to imed $4,000,000 will add about $60,000,000 to . ne wealth of the country, according to the estimates of experts. It must also be borne In mind that ultimately not one penny of the cost of this great work will come out. of the public treas ury because it will all be repaid by those who secure the land, and the proceeds again used to turn water onto other arid tracts. When the promoters of these Irrigation projects first asked for appropriations they were called visionaries, but they re plied that so also were the men who first settled In the land west of the Missouri river, who nevertheless de veloped It Into one of the garden spots of the world. While only a beginning haa been made toward creating the greatest area of irrigated land In the world, and at the present rate it will be many years before all the available land Is redeemed,' the successful achievement of the vision of Irrigation is achieved. From an engineering standpoint the Gunnlsoa project deserves attention By a tunnel six miles long the water Is conveyed through a mountain from a valley which has water, but little available land, to a valley which baa rich land, but no water until the tun nel brought It In addition to water- ng the land the tunnel develops 30,- 000 horse power, which It is exp:ted will soon bo In demand, and will cer tainly be harnessed to useful purpose in tLe no distant futute. A Leg-iilative Oem. Just as the purest nugget of gold s often found In the least promising surroundings, so the finest gem In the output of Nebraska's late demo-pop legislature has been almost covered up amidst the dry and tiresome verbi age of the new primary law. To appreciate this artlstio piece of literary workmanship more fully some knowledge of its origin will be useful. Vgien the primary law was first put on our statute books It aimed to pre vent members of one political party from having an unbidden voice in the nomination of candidates of other po litical parties and to safeguard against lightning changes, each voter asking for a primary ballot was required to state ' with what political party he wished to affiliate and to confine his participation to the nomination of the candidates of that particular party. Were there any question as to the fact of party affiliation his vote could be challenged and he could be required to make hla declaration under oath. A notorious democrat, for example, trying to vote the republican ticket could be put to this test, and unless he were willing to take oath that he was affiliating with the republican party, he would be refused an opportunity to help nominate republican candi dates. Nebraska's new primary law com pletely changes this method of nom ination by permitting each voter to participate in the primary of any po litical party and vote the ticket of any party he pleases. To protect him in his divine right to change his political coat as often as he pleases, he Is to have a ballot given to him containing the tickets of all political parties, and be permitted to vote any one of them without divulging with which party he prefers to affiliate. But when our distinguished demo-pop lawmakers came to patch up this part of the law, here waa the test oath staring them in the face, which, of course, must likewise be amended. Ne braska's new primary law, therefore, provides that if a voter, who is privi leged to vote any ticket be pleases, be challenged as to what party he be longs to, he must go through this per formance: Question Do you intend to support the candidate of the party at the next election that you support in this primary election? And if the challenge be not then determined in hla favor he must sub mit to this postscript: Tou do solemnly swear that you are a oltlsen ef the United States; that you have been an Inhabitant of the state of Nebraska for the last six months, of the county for the last forty days, of this precinct for the ast ten days, and that you have attained the age of twenty-one years, to the best of your knowledge, .and' that you Intend to support the same candidates, or the ma jority of them, at the next election, that you support at this election Does any one know of an otherwise qualified voter who could be barred from participating In a primary elec tion upon such a challenge or how he could be held for false swearing, no matter what answer he might make? But the beauty of this elastic test oath Is that the voter may change bis in tention between the time he receives his ballot and the time he marka it without committing perjury, although already sworn. And If It should hap pen that all the candidates for whom he votes, in the primaries should fall to be nominated, making it Impossible for him to pursue hia intention to vote for them at the election, he may still disfranchise himself if he has any qualms of conscience. Justice Brown on Divorce. The utterance of Henry B. Brown, retired Justice of the United States supreme court, on the divorce ques tion Is a notable contribution to the controversy. Mr. Brown views di vorce in the light of a long public service on the bench which brought the question home to him In a prac tical way and, while he does not palliate the evils of lax divorce courta and lawa, he challenges the ecclesias tical view that all divorces are harm ful in themselves. The premises are so at variance that there Is little room for argument between' the two sides on the ethics of divorce, as the jus tice holds marriage to be a civil con tract, subject to court review, while the extreme ecclesiastic denies both That the burden of public opinion is with the judge is evidenced by the ex Istence of divorce laws in practically every state and nation. From the practical point of view few will challenge the assertion of Justice Brown that conditlona often render continuance of marriage bonds unbearable and Injurious to all con cerned. The great outcry Is not against the institution of divorce, but against lax laws regulating It and still more lax administration of these laws by the courta. The original difficulty lies In the thoughtless and irresponsl ble manner in which many marriages are contracted which makes wedlock a convenience instead of a solemn compact between the contracting parties. Parties to such marriages cannot be expected to appreciate the consequences of breaking up families, but thla doea not go to the real ques tion of the advisability. Justice Brown deprecates the abuaea of the divorce court and wonld probably Join la any effort to lessen or eradicate them, but hla Judicial ex perience has undoubtedly brought to hla attention many casea in which the public good haa demanded severance of the bonds. 'Market for Fountain Peni. The United States consular agent at 8t Petersburg reports to his home government that there Is a good open ing for American fountain pen manu facturers in Russia. The consular re port doea not Indicate whether the fountain pen is unknown in Russia and its adaptability to writing the long Russian names has suggested the idea to him or whether the domestic article made a "squirt" Just at the bot tom of a closely written page. What ever the reason, he Insists that Amer ican fountain pen manufacturers could, if they would, do a thriving business in Russia. Here ia certainly an opportunity to extend American commerce, but man ufacturers should be warned In ad vance that It requires a good pen with staying qualities to master the Intrica cies of the Russian language. It la also necessary they should be able to sneeze without splattering all over the paper. We are not up on Ruasian enough to advise thoroughly Just what la needed, but with several years' ex perience with fountain pens struggling with simple English we are confident that nothing but the highest grade article will fill the bill. Watering- of Stocks. In a recently adjudicated caae the reorganisation committee of a New York street railway put forth a plea which was sustained by the court, but which does not appeal to our ordinary Ideas of equity. It was proposed to reorganize the company by Issuing the same amount of stocks and bonds carried by the bankrupt company and the receiver insisted that this was not stock watering because the old stock holders had paid par for the securi ties and it was no one's business what had been done with the money or for how much the new concern was capi talized. This is directly at variance with leg islative enactments In many states and with court decisions almost every where, particularly when applied to publlo service corporations. While such securities are liable to be a fraud upon the man who Invests his money in them, this Is of small moment be side the right which the publlo serv ice corporation claima to fix It chargea sufficiently high to pay a return on the capitalization. The public Is forced by conditions to patronize these cor porations and to pay the price which will produce the revenue. An indi vidual or corporation doing a private business which is not a forced levy upon the public can exact what he can get and It Is only hia own concern what his profits are or whether there are any profits. The grant to a fran cbised corporation implies the giving of adequate service at a fair price and that fair price a reasonable return on the Investment The watering of stock and issue of bonds representing no investment becomes a fraud on the public when used to shield exactions that would not be sustained on an honest capitalization. Lewis Strikes Keynote. President Lewis of the United Mine Workers has struck the keynote in his address before the mine operators' convention, in which he said the time had passed for appeals to force to set tle differences between miners and their employers and that resort must be had to Intelligent arbitration. No other Industry lies so close to all lines of business activity as coal min ing. Coal is the first requisite for power needed In every branch of man ufacturing and transportation as well as a home necessity, particularly in winter. The nature of the business and enormous consumption precludes storing sufficient mined coal to keep business going for any great length of time and stoppage of mining means business paralysis and physical dis comfort to people not parties to the controversy. Whether the miners and operators will it or not, public senti ment undoubtedly will soon force this view upon them, aa on aeveral recent occasions when publlo opinton haa forced a settlement. It Is a hopeful sign that Mr. Lewla takes this view, as it is fair to pre sume that it Is also the view of the men composing the organization he represents. If the operators will like wise endorse the sentiment and neither of them forget It when they disagree the next time the country will have occasion to rejoice. Trouble in South America. An unusual International difficulty haa arisen in South America through the arbitration award of the president of Argentina In the Acre dispute be tween Peru and Bolivia. Originally the territory was claimed by Brazil, but In later years that country aban doned its contention and paid Bolivia $10,000,000 to cede aoverelgnty. When the deal was made Peru pro tested, asserting that .the territory belonged to Peru, but no attention was paid to the protest, and now comes the climax In the award of the arbi trator declaring that title rests In Peru. Ordinarily South American coun tries Incline to hostilities on slight pretexts, and the possibilities of this triangular squabble are portentlous. Peru is supersensitive over what It deems robbery by Chill during their last unpleasantness and is not inclined to yield this rich territory without a struggle. Neither are the Bolivian politicians likely to give up com placently the $10,000,000. Brazil wanta the territory because of it great rubber-producing capacity, the trade In which commodity It largely monopolises. Present sources of rub ber supply are unequal to the demand and this territory, while practically nnexplored, Is known to contain vast forests of rubber-producing trees and vines. Should peaceful mant fall, Brazil, because of geographical difficulties, would probably be only a minor factor despite its large population and wealth, because between the settled portion and the theater of war ia an immense stretch of only partially ex plored territory through which there are no roada or passsge except by small boata on the rivers. Peru and Bolivia are both poverty-stricken and with no considerable organized mili tary force, and a contest between them would in all probability be a guerilla warfare. If the present tem per of the South American people doea not cool off the United States may have another chance to be peace maker. Governor Shallenberger's nonpartl- aan police board of South Omaha is celebrating Its advent by making a few nonpartisan changes In the mem bership of the fire and police depart ment The proof of the nonpartlsan- ship is that all of the decapitations are republicans and all the new ap pointees are democrats. The Paris Temps accords the United States second place in the list of world naval powers, with Great Britain In front and Germany behind. Those Britishers must be suffering merely from an attack of stage fright. 'Secretary Wilson denies that he has been a party to any truce on the bleached flour question. To those who know the secretary and the dens ity of his Scotch this denial was un necessary. The around-the-world fleet of bat tleships which the alarmists Insisted would be ruined by the cruise insists upon going Into the regular summer maneuvers JuBt as though nothing had happened. The new president of the National Educational association is said to owe his election to prejudice against the school book trust supposed to be back ing his appointment How times have changed. Lawyer Harned insisted he did not know It was the Sugar trust which loaned the money which tied up the competing Philadelphia refinery. , An other case of didn't know It was loaded. The trial of the Sugar trust has been postponed until after the fruit canning season and the defendants hope by that time to have enough money to hire a lawyer. fadeaerved Owelty. " Pittsburg Dispatch. Now ft is decided that Early, the soldier, has no leprosy. Yet 1 cruel superstition made him a prisoner for a year and denied him the elose companionship of his wife and babies. Sometimes the alleged publlo good is not good at all. are of Hla Ground. Boston Herald. Attorney General Wlckersham's policy Is to be sure he's right, then go ahead. Which makes the action of the federal grand jury in the ease of the sugar trust more im portant than some federal indictments which have been reported. Shlalng- Lights of Coaafort. Philadelphia Press. Poor families that are suffering from the Inoreased coat of lee will be overjoyed to learn of the expeoted fall In the price of diamonds. Wives and daughters of the toe barons will be able to get so many more carats of the "sparklers" for their money. A Novel Experience. New Tork Tribune. The new cents bearing the portrait of Lincoln will be welcomed as eagerly as though they were coins of greater value. It will be a novel experience to have American coins bearing the portrait of some real person, but it will be agreeable and may set an example for imitation. Ktnihln of draft. San Franclsoo Chronicle. It. Is not pleasant to know that there Is graft anywhere, of course, yet Americans, who have felt shame because of exposures of corruption In this country, will be pard oned at taking some satisfaction In learn ing that twenty-three Japanese politicians have been sentenced for graft brought out In the sugar scandals there. It Is always nloe to have proof that other people are bad too. Good Thing; for Criminals. New Tork Tribune. The supreme court of Tenneesee haa ordered a new trial for the night riders who killed Captain Quenttn Rankin, on the ground that the defense was entitled to 1W peremptory challenges Inatead of only twenty-four, which the trial court allowed. Under the Tennesnee law any ona who has heard a cave discussed or read of It In the newspapers In Ineligible for jury dutv In that case. Under this rule, and llh 131 peremptory challenges to be ex errlred, It will probably take lit years to obtsln a new Jury. Promise of Air Flight. Kew Tork Bun. The blcvcle manufacturers of fifteen years ago have become the makers of auto mobiles, and (he latter are now offering aeroplanes for sale. When everybody rode a bicycle and the craze or fashion gave a powerful Impetus to the good roads move ment no one dri-amed that In a little more than ten years the bicycle would be sup planted by the automobile; would, In fact, tecome almost obsolete. Now, before th first decade of the twentieth century Is spent, the automobile Is threatens?, with a rival an1 a successor, the aeroplane, that holds out a promise of the most ex hilarating sport the world has ever known. Only the pioneers In the new right, the profeors of aviation, have ye; experienced Its joys, but they aver that they can teach It, and even promise a development of their Invention that will permit everybody to fly at a eoet lees than that of possessing and operating aa automobile. The price of an aeroplane la Paris today Is 14,000. Are You Going v Away This Week ? Telephone us to Insure your Rugs, Silverware, Curtains and all the rest of your home furniture against loss by burglars, thieves, fire, lightning, tornado, hail, windstorm and rain. The rate ia very low, but the protection la the best. Upon request by phone or mail, we will send you an Interesting book, published by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company B. L. Baldwin (El Co., GENERAL AGENTS PnONE DOUGLAS 871. 1231 FARNAM 8T. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT Homlletle Review: Let a preacher bring to the pulpit a tithe of that prepara tion which la deemed Indispensable for any other profession, and we shall soon cease to hear the outcry against the deficiencies and delinquencies of the method of modern preaching. Philadelphia Press: The Rev. Pr. Aked gives this piece of cheerful advice: "Be glad othets have money if you have not, and you will be astonished at the happi ness that will result to yourself." John D. Rockefeller Is the shining light of Dr. Aked's church. Every member of the con gregation may be expeoted to become as- tonlxhingly happy by feeling glad that Mr. Rockefeller has so much money. Baltimore American: A woman teacher In Chinese Sunday school work In New Tork, opposing the movement to substitute men for women as teachers in these classes, says that as an Illustration of bow the Chinese boys appreciate the work of their teaohera she has known them to pre sent the girls with diamond rings, ex pensive laces and costly brlc-a-brao. This argument looks as though other motives than saving souls entered into the girls' religious seal, and Is all the mora reason why this work should be In the hands of men. Boston Herald: An Incident during the visit of the American battleships at Mar seilles, In whloh American reverence and faith In truths religious waa contrasted with French Infidelity, serves as a revela tion of a current in American life that is not always recognised by prophets of evil who cry out against the Godless nation and Godless times In the United States of today. When the American men of Cath olio faith went to mass in the cathedral they were Jeered and Insulted by an In fidel mob, which the local authorities took no pains . to disperse. Returning to th ships, the story of the personal Indignities suffered and the Insults offered to religion and to the spirit of reverence welded Protestants and Catholics together. Whereas on Sunday 4X1 men had marched to the cathedral, the next day 1.200 went. Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists lined up with Cathollos to show the French that In America religion is still a vital fact, and that In the presence of unbelief and Irreverence all barriers that divide Chris tlans go down. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The elements persist In mocking the ef forts of Kansans to make the "dry" label stick on the state. Lemolne, the convicted French swindler who goes over the road for six years, scored 4,600 victims, easily outclassing Mr. Mabray's collection of "Mikes." A California woman who has passed the century mark attributes her long lite to a regular diet of doughnuts. Evidently Callfornlans take with their climate some thing In the nature of a chaser. The ultimate consumer loses again. Right at the moment strong men were needed to force the fighting in the tariff crisis Mr. Onyun of Washington struck his colors and got married, . Dispatches Intimate that much of Chi cago's salacious case is "unfit to print," but you may have noticed that enough came ever the wire to prevent undue strain on ripe Imaginations. Once In a while the eternal fitness of things hits the bullseye. A joy rider In St. touts, speeding at a sixty-mile gait to escape arrest, collided with a post and broke his neck. A 110,000 oar made a fine heap, of junk. The revised epistle of modern St Paul has to do with the spectacle of paving con tractors plowing up old concrete laid on Fourth street twenty years ago. Most of those who paid the price are given a near view of the moving picture show. The International controversy over the Invention of the lightning rod does not dis turb the dreams of brooding candidates. Labels are Incidental. A rod that will de liver the primary lightning In August can get the orders regardless of the make. The Increased expance of smile noted on President Taft'a frontispiece Is due to his sucoess In ducking a prepared welcoming speech of the mayor of Beverly. The dis appointed official refused to avail himself of "the leave to print" and will startle the echoes of Cape Cod later on. PITV THE PESSIMIST. People Hot ae Bad aa a Bishop Paints Them. Brooklyn Eagle. Intelligent Americans who are not given to the business of depreciating their own country will pity rather than resent the pessimism of Bishop Williams of Mlohlgan, whose Fourth of July sermon, preached in this city, charged the American people with moral and intellectual deficiencies of a very serious sort. According to the good bishop we are more charitable to him than he Is to his countrymen we are Inhumane, a proof of Inhumanity being found In our railroad casualltles which pass unpunished. That Is, one count In the Indictment Fur thermore, we are sordid, without Ideals, caring nothing for art; unsentimental, Idolatrous of the golden calf and generally Indifferent to the higher life. Our univer sities are trade schools, not Institutions for the preservation and inculcation of i moral and Intellectual Ideals. We need not deal with the Indictment in detail. Bishop Williams' case Is grave. He is looking at his country through spectacle of a Jaundiced yellow. Of course, his fel low Americana have their Imperfectlona. and many of them could be convicted of the high crimes and misdemeanors which the bishop Imputes to the nation as a whole But when Pr. Williams recovers from his hypocritical humor, when he pauses long enough to consider the many Influences that are making for ethical, artlstio. in dustrial and social Improvement; when he contemplates the force and extent of the uprising against dishonest business meth ods, the Incessant campaign for cleaner poll t lea he will perhaps realise that even the Lord's anointed may be occasionally fallible In Judgment. In the meantime, while the process of Illumination Is going on. we can assure the bishop of our very sincere commiseration en bis present state ef mind. v SERMONS IN SHOST METER, Self-denial is self -discovery. There are few weeds in a busy life. The only way to save eed Is to sow ft Self-conquest is the secret of all great courage. The next worst thing to having na friends la to be without fi-a. There are no Innocent bystanders when an Injustice Is being; done. Tou do not preserve the faith by keep ing the faithful In a pickle. All the slaves of lust are proud of thai collars branded "Llbarty." We lose any great attainment when we try to turn It Into a resting place. Culture alone cannot . make character but character alone gives culture. Tou get little comfort out of the man who haa been used to consoling himself.-. Chicago Tribune. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. " 'The preacher that married you says you only save him a dollar." "He ought to be glad I didn't sue him for damages." Houston Post. "They say Florence broke off her en gagement with George, but I know batten. He threw her over for Maude." "Why, I thought you were-aa - Intimate friend of Florenoe," "tio I am. That's how I came to know he threw her over." Baltimore Amerloaa, The Editor This phrase, "He led her ta the altar," makes me tired. Society Reporter Why T Editor It's hackneyed for one thing, and. in the second place. It' nonsense, "Led, indeed! Most girls have to do the steering, because the man haa blind staggers.-. Cleveland leader. "What! Spend 1100 on a bathing auItT" "Now, hubby, this Isn't a bathing suit. This is a beach costume." Kansas City Journal. "How cap we Interest her?" "Tell her it's a worthy causa," suggested one. "Tell her It's getting to be a popular fad," Interposed a wiser head. Louis villa Courier-Journal. "Mary," called her father. bu that young man gone yet?" ; "No, pa," replied tha maid. . "But he's going right now." "Then ask him to empty the pail under neath the loebox before he goes, will yout I forgot It." Detroit Free Press. Slmklns I say, Jack, if you'll get me s. lock of your sister's hair I'll give you htj cents. Jack Maks It a quarter and I'll get you the whole bunoh. I know where ehe hangs It at night. Philadelphia Bulletin. ; Witness At the time of the accident my maid waa in my boudoir arranging my hair. . Lawyer Tea. and where were yout Witness Sir f Boston Transcript, Newed (after the ceremony) Dearest, do you really think I'll prove a satisfactory mate? 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